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Calculating (plotting) celestial orbits
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Durzel
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#1 - 2012-05-15 12:23:25 UTC  |  Edited by: Durzel
I'm struggling to compute the orbits of celestials using the Eve data dump. In mapDenormalize I can see the x, y, z coordinates of each celestial, together with the entity each orbits, but there doesn't seem to be a corresponding variable to describe the orbital eccentricity or the orbit "tilt".

I see there is an "eccentricity" value in mapCelestialStatistics but I can't reconcile this with what I'm seeing on the solar system map ingame that you see when you press F10.

Is the Eve data dump sufficient for plotting the orbit of celestials or is there data elsewhere I should be looking at?
iskflakes
#2 - 2012-05-15 18:17:28 UTC
Celestials in EVE do not move.

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#3 - 2012-05-15 19:29:05 UTC
Are you using the eccentricity as degrees or radians? (I've not looked at those figures, so I'm not sure if it's suitable)

I'm assuming you're just wanting to work out the orbital plane for the celestial.

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Durzel
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#4 - 2012-05-15 21:59:19 UTC
Yeah, just trying to reproduce what you see when you hit F10 in game, no more no less.

I realise celestials don't actually orbit in the traditional sense (as in they don't move).

All I can find is the X, Y, Z coords in mapDenormalize and eccentricity in mapCelestialStatistics, which isn't enough to tell me the orbital plane.